Demonstration Sites

Students lead participating teachers in a choreography sequence at the Dance Demonstration Site at Curie High School, October 2018.

Seeing excellent teaching and learning in real time is a valuable way to learn techniques and approaches to try out in your own classroom. In these sessions, our Arts Instruction Specialists will open their classrooms for their peers to observe and discuss high-quality, standards-aligned practice in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, and media arts.

Substitute teachers for hosts and attendees will be paid for by the Department of Arts Education.

Schedule and Registration Information

REGISTRATION IS VERY LIMITED FOR ALL DEMONSTRATION SITE SESSIONS. If you register, you are committing to attend. Teachers who do not attend without notifying the Department of their absence at least one (1) week in advance of the session (barring emergencies) will not be considered to attend Demonstration Sites in the future.

If you receive a notice that a site is full and wish to be placed on a wait list: Please email cpsarts@cps.eduwith your name, email, role, and demo site you wish to attend.

Participants will engage in hands-on artmaking through a series of lessons on choreographic devices. They will use a variety of technological resources to create, manipulate, and present choreography, including iPads, the Dance Maker app, the Pic Stitch app, iMovie, Loopideo and Videoshop. They'll also learn to retrograde, repeat, accumulate, segment, and manipulate the elements of dance through use of film editing.

Host: Christine Reed

Who should attend: Dance and Media Arts teachers in grades 6-12

To register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepZZ-D8SACFngq-w98NgY3Iyvg-RBtBElncEpLBJH5YArSZQ/viewform?usp=sf_link